Celebrities:

• "Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been." - David Bowie
• "Life should be lived by design, not default." - Frank Degner (2023)

Books:

• "Donna has always been headstrong, always acted quickly and decisively. Which is a fine quality when you are right, but a liability when you are wrong. it's great to be the fastest runner, but not when you're running in the wrong direction." - The Thursday Murder Club (p. 125)
• In life you have to learn to count the good days. You have to tuck them in your pocket and carry them around with you. So I'm putting today in my pocket and I've off to bed. - The Thursday Murder Club (p. 85)
• "I am stronger than when I knew them. I stand straighter. I am more patient. I hold fewer grudges. I am more thankful for what I have, less resentful for what I don't. I am less restless. I read a lot more books. I play the piano. I'm engaged." - One True Loves (p. 153)
• "She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet." - Persuasion (Read in the Roaring Days of Zora Lily)
• "It was lucky that Chris loved his job, was good at his job. He always found it easy to get up in the morning; he just found it hard to go to sleep at night." - The Thursday Murder Club (p. 240)
• "For Ibrahim one of the beauties of Coopers Chase was that it was so alive. So full of ridiculous committees . . . It was a community, and in Ibrahim's opinion that's how human beings were designed to live. At Coopers Chase, anytime you wanted to be alone, you would simply close your front door, and anytime you wanted to be with people, you would open it up again. If there was a better recipe for happiness than that, then Ibrahum as yet to hear it." - The Thursday Murder Club (p. 202)
• "And for once, instead of remembering the death I'd seen in a certain corner, the attach in a particular doorway, which windows of which homes and shops had been smashed in, or the dark uniforms that had lined the sidewalks like looming shadows, I focused on something else. The man beside me, his fingers laced through mine, the sun on my face, and a future still not known, but full of hope once more." - Angels of the Resistance (p. 356)
• "No one can be independent of other people completely, so why not give up the attempt, she thought, go running in the other direction, depend on people for everything, allow them to depend on you, why not." - Normal People (p. 269)

Movies:

• "I don't know what to say, but it's Christmas and we're all in misery." - Ellen Griswold (Christmas Vacation)
• "So even though you have broken my hear yet again, I wanted to say, in another life, I would have really liked just doing laundry and taxes with you." - Waymond Wang (Everything Everywhere All At Once)

Other:

• “You never fail until you stop trying.” - Mom’s college dorm room
• "The body achieves what the mind believes." - GT's

TV:

• “Life’s about fucking things up. Okay? And then unfucking the things you fucked up. That’s what makes you less of a fuck up. Not lying about it.” - Loudermouth
• “Hurting yourself is easy, but living is hard. So Claire, what’s the thing? Okay, what’s the big problem that nobody can help you with?” -Loudermouth
• “Even a blind squirrel is right twice a day.” - Loudermouth